Shattak River

The Shokh or Shattak river appears to be the most distant of these sources of the eastern Tigris, arising from the foot of the lofty chain of Billi, from the snow-clad crest of which Mr. Layard clearly distinguished the Peak of Ararat, 145 miles distant. The country traversed on this occasion between Lake Van and the Zab is indeed throughout new to geographers, and was hitherto a blank on there maps. [New Monthly Magazine - Page 446 by Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth]

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